AI Took My Job!
Ken Jennings’ name is vaguely familiar to people, but why? Because his profound knowledge on all things trivial led to him being the unbeatable champion of a TV game show called Jeopardy! It also put him in the gunsights of IBM. They spent thousands of hours, invested millions of dollars, all just to build a machine named WATSON that could defeat him playing that TV-derived game. See how Ken deals with the...

For individuals, businesses and research institutes working with emerging technologies, it is important to follow and shape societal debates revolving around their field. Sooner or later, societal debates are likely to translate into political action, which may greatly impact work on emerging technologies – for better or worse. Also, if research institutes and businesses aim for more than research results and profit, they’re...

Many technical experts have come to predict something genuinely earth-shattering : In a few decades, artificially intelligent algorithms are quite likely to (far) outsmart the most capable humans in every cognitive area – from social skills, humor and creativity to science and technological innovation.
One factor that’s driving the power of artificial intelligences is the availability of big data: Though many AI...